Pul has travelled 2,000km from her home in Assam, north-east India,
to a small government-run shelter in another state where her daughter is
waiting. Weeping, she reaches out and clutches 13-year-old Tahmina* to
her. She had thought she would never see her again.
Six weeks
previously, Tahmina had left her home with her elder sister and
brother-in-law. She thought they were going to Delhi. Instead, she was
taken to a remote village in Haryana and sold into marriage with a man
almost 30 years older than her.
At a safe house run by Empower
People, an anti-trafficking charity which helped reunite her and her
mother, Tahmina drew a picture that revealed what she had been through.
On
pink paper, she sketched stick figures travelling by bus, train and
car. At the bottom, she drew herself surrounded by strange people and
wrote a number: 50,000 rupees (£557), the price she was sold for.
Source : theguardian
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